infos "Ez bas. 4 Chap. all probability utterly loſt to his Owner, and becauſe he had no doubt a Warrant and Inſpiraticn for it frcm the great Loid and Supreme Owner of all things. * 14 And Abraham cailed the name of that place F Jehovah-jirth z : as it is ſaid to this day s, In the mount b of the Lord ic ſhall be ſeen c. RE | 2 The ſame Hebrew Letters differently pointed, make the ſenſe either ative, the, Lord will ſee, 1.e. provide or take care of theſe that commit themlſclyes and their affairs to him; or paſſive, the Lord well be jecr, i.e, will appear and ſhew himſelf in the behalf of all thuſe that love him ' » Wherein Moſes wrote this Book ; this is ftull uſed as a Proverb. 6(45.e.) In greateſt Extremities and Diſtreſles, as we ſay, at the Pits brink. , c Or, the Lord ſhall bee ſeen or manifeſted. And although theſe words are uſed by way of remembrance of this great Deliverance, and by way of accommodation to ſuch like eminent preſervations from great dangers; yet they may have afur- ther reſpe&, and may ſignifie, That this was but an earneſt of furs ther and greater Bleſſings to be expe&cd in this place, where the Temple was builr,and the Lo-d Chriſt was manifeſted in the Fleſh. Is Y Andthe angel of the LORD called unto Ab- raham out of heaven the ſecond time. |
16 And faid, * By my ſelfhaveT ſworn 4, ſaith th L ORD, for becauſe thou haſt done this thing e, and
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*Pfal 19g 9.Luke x 173-Hebs « So the Lord ſwears by his name, Jer: 44. 26. By his ſoul, in the 6.13. Hebrew Text, Jer: 51. 14. By his holineſs, Amos 4.2. which is the ſame with by himſelf, here. Hence alſo it appears that the Angel who ſpeaks here is Chriſt and God, becaule this is God's p'eroga= tive to ſwear by himſelf, as appears from Heh. 6. 13, oth Avraham by this A& did properly merit, or purchaſe the following promiſes, as plainly appears, becauſe! the ſame things for ſubitance had been freely promiſed ro Abraham long before this time and action, Gen. 12, 2. and 13. 16., only. what before was promiſed is now confirmed by an Oath, as a Teſtimony of that ſingular reſpe& which God had.to Abraham, and to this he:oical inſtance of Faith and Obedience, | 4g: IE 8 þ | _ 17 LThatin bleſlingT will bleſs thee, and in mulciply- ing I will muitiply thy ſeed as-the ſtars of the heaven, _ ;. ; © and as the ſand which js upon the ſea + ſhore ;and thy + T1cD.0p {ced ſhall potle(s thegate f of his encmies; REN: 1 f (7: e: ) The City, by an uſual Synecdoche, as Deur: *2. 15. ahd 18. 6. all the Cities, and conſequently the Countrey adjacent ; gate 'or gates. The ſen'< is, they ſhall ſubdue their enemies. For the gates of Cities » ere the places both of Juriſdiction o* Judicature, Dent. 21. 19. and 22. 15. Amos 5.2, 15, Zech: 8. 16, and of Fortifica- tion and chiei ſt engrh in War, Judg. 5. 8 Pſal 147.:13. 1a: 22. 7. Extk; 21. 22, And this promiſe was fulfilled both lirera'ly in 1+ raels conqueſt of Canaan, in David, ' Solomon, &c. and ſpiritually in Chriſt, Pſal. 110. x, 2, 3. | Is 4 15 * And inthy ſeed ſhall all the nations of the earth +c4,2 14 be bleſſed : becauſe thou haſt obeyed my voice. 3.and 8 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and 18. Ads they roſe up, and went together to Beer-ſheba, and Ab- 4 Gab ;aham dwelt at Beer-thebas _
\ 20 4 And it came to paſs aftertheſethings, that it . was told Abraham, ſaying, Behoid * Milcah the hath *Chap.i# alſo born chi!d:ien urto thy brother Nahor g; 29. þ
£ This Nacrration and' Genealogy i« added fer Rebekab's ſake, and "WM ro mak2 way for the following Relation.
2: Huz his firit-born, and Buz & his brother, and '_ Kemuelthe Father of 4ram 5. |
h From whom deſcended, as ſome conceive, Elihu the Buzite, Job 32. 2. # Socalled, poflib!y becauſe he dwelt amongſt the $y- rians, as Jacob, for the fame reaſon, was called a Syrian, Deut: 26: 5. Bur there was another more ancient Aram ; from whom the Sirians
deſcended, Gen. 10. 22. | | 22 And Cheſed, and Hazo, and Pildaſh , and Jid-*- |
laph, and Bethuel. | 1. 23 And Bethuei begat * Rebekah &: theſe eight Mil- © © © 7 cah did bear to N:ihor 4brahams brother. * Calle? k Afterwards {ſaac's Wife. chap. 24. 2M. Be. 24 And his concubine 1, whoſename was Reumah, {7 Rev?
ſhe bare allo Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahafh, and _— Maachah ms.
- 1 Which was an inferior kind of Wife, taken according to the common practiſe of thoſe rimes, ſubje& to the Aurhority of the principal Wife, and whoſe children had no tight of Inheritance, but were endowea with Gifts. See Ger. 21. 14. and 25.6, m A name common both co Man,- as 2 Sam. 10.6. and Woman, as 1
Kings 15.13+ CHAP; XKXIITL BE Sarah's age and death; Abraham niourns, 1, 2. He ſpeaks to the ſons of Heth for a burying-place, 3, 4 They offer him the choice of thei Jepulchres, 5, 6. Abraham deſires to purchaſe a field of Ephron, 8, g.. Ephron would give it him, 10--===-=15, Abraham purchaſes it, and weighs the ſilver, 16. The fi.ld made jureto Abraham for a poſſeſſion be= fore witneſſes, 17----20.
Nd Sarah was an hundred and ſeven and twenty ' £4 years old, theſe were the years of the life of Sas rah #. a This is the peculiar Honour of Sarah the Mother of the Faithful,
1 Pet. 3.6 to have the years of her life numbred in Scripture. 2 And varah dicd in Kirjath-arba b ; the fame is He- bron c in the land of Canaan : And Abraham came tg
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þ Or, The City of 4Arba, fo called probably from a Cant of. great Man called 4rba, who lived and ruled in thoſe parts. .See Fajhua 14. 15. and 15. 13. c It is objeRed againſt this Scrip=
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15. but thisis a miſtake, Jc/þza doth not ſay ſo, but enly that the" naine of Hebron before, ( or in.old time ) as this very Particle 1s ren- dred, Deut: 2: 20; and elſewhere. So the Senſe is, The moſt ancient name of it was Kiriath-4rba. Nor doth Joſhua there give any account, or reaſon of this change of the name at that rime, or upon that occaſion, as the ſacred Writers uſe to do in ſuch caſes, but rather ſuppoſeth that Hebron was the name of it before he came thither; and __ long before that time, he doth not expreſs. f Into Sarah's. Tent. See Gen: 18: 6, 9: d According to the laudable Cuſtom of all ages and Nations, to manifeſt their ſenſe of God's _ upenthem, and of their own loſs. See Gen: 50: 3: Deut: 34. 8, &c, | | T